Mindgeek

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MindGeek Holding SARL
legal form SARL
founding 2004
Seat Luxembourg , LuxembourgLuxembourgLuxembourg 
Number of employees 1400 (2016)
sales 460 million euros (2015)
Branch Information technology
web engineering
pornography
Website mindgeek.com

Mindgeek ( spelling : MindGeek ) is a media and IT company, among other things in the field of Internet pornography , based in Luxembourg . The company offers a large number of different services in seven locations: Luxembourg, Canada , United States , United Kingdom , Ireland , Germany and Cyprus . The company includes world-famous brands such as Pornhub , YouPorn , RedTube , Brazzers , VideoBash, Mofos, Mydirtyhobby , Sean Cody and Digital Playground , which it sells both on TV and on the Internet. Mindgeek was called Manwin until 2013 . Manwin took over all of the Playboy's web and TV products in November 2011 and has been operating the magazine's online presence ever since.

Brands and Activities

Mindgeek owns several primarily pornographic Web 2.0 video websites such as VideoBash , YouPorn , PornHub , Tube8 , XTube , ExtremeTube and SpankWire .

Old logo

Fabian Thylmann was the managing director and sole shareholder until October 2013 . At this point, Thylmann sold the company to managers in-house.

Mindgeek also owns and operates several brands with pornographic content such as Brazzers , Mofos, Babes.com, Men.com and Digital Playground.

In November 2011 Manwin became a partner of Playboy and has been selling the magazine's online presence ever since. In addition, Manwin took over all of the company's television programs worldwide and operates Playboy TV under license from Playboy Plus Entertainment in Los Angeles.

In February 2012, a security flaw caused Youporn's YP chat to fail for a short time . In addition, the passwords and email addresses of more than 6,000 users were copied; Another security issue in March 2012 copied more than 73,000 usernames, email addresses, and passwords on the Digital Playground website. In addition, credit card information was read from 40,000 credit cards.

Corporate network

The Mindgeek Holding from Luxembourg has over 35 subsidiaries, twelve of them in Luxembourg itself. Die Welt am Sonntag claimed on September 10, 2012 that, according to a large law firm for international tax law, Manwin would be “a case for tax investigators”. In December 2012 Fabian Thylmann, who was believed to be the owner of Manwin, was arrested in Belgium on suspicion of tax evasion after investigations by the Cologne Public Prosecutor's Office. Feras Antoon, the managing director of the Canadian Manwin branch, is currently in charge of the business.

On April 28, 2011, Manwin was granted a loan of $ 362 million. The entire company assets were entered as collateral. CB Agency Services LLC from the US state of Delaware and Cortland Capital Markets Services LLC, a financial services provider from Chicago, were also involved in the settlement. The companies involved did not provide any information on the origin of the money.

The German location of the company is Hamburg. According to the entry in the commercial register, Alexander Pschorr has been the managing director of this location, Manwin Germany (since December 2013: SNG GmbH). The Hamburg company operates, among other things, the German-speaking customer support for the Group's websites. A loss of around 32,000 euros was reported in the business books for the 2010 financial year. The 2011 figures are not yet available in public sources. Furthermore, internal accounts show that in May, June and July 2012 the Manwin Group made more than 2.5 million euros in sales with websites for which Manwin Germany GmbH operates, among other things, customer support services. The annual turnover of these websites is estimated at 30 million euros.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bureau de décision et de révision. Retrieved August 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Porn empire reports half billion dollars in revenue - but ends year with loss. Retrieved August 22, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Contact Us ( Memento from December 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Mindgeek website, accessed January 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Manwin Acquires YouPorn.com. In: Adult Video News , May 10, 2011, accessed December 11, 2012.
  5. ^ A b Benjamin Wallace: The Geek-Kings of Smut. In: New York Magazine , January 30, 2011, accessed December 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ a b c Florian Flade, Lars-Marten Nagel: A German excites the world. In: Welt am Sonntag , September 10, 2012, pp. 15–19.
  7. ↑ xbiz: Fabian Thylmann Sells Stake in Manwin to Company Management , October 18, 2013
  8. ↑ Manwin Goes Glamcore with new Babes.com Network. In: Adult Video News , June 26, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012.
  9. ↑ MEN.COM. Trademarkia.com, accessed December 11, 2012.
  10. ^ Robert Briel: Manwin takes over Playboy TV operations. In: Broadband TV News , October 31, 2011, accessed December 11, 2012.
  11. ↑ Passwords leaked in YouPorn chat site security breach. BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat , February 23, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012.
  12. ↑ Porn site breached in hack attack. In: BBC News , March 12, 2012, accessed December 11, 2012.
  13. ↑ Florian Flade, Lars-Marten Nagel: Youporn boss arrested in Belgium. Welt.de, December 10, 2012.
  14. ↑ L.-M. Nagel: Pornography: YouPorn lives on - even without its boss . In: THE WORLD . December 15, 2012 ( welt.de [accessed September 18, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Hamburg District Court, HRB 118809, notification of change of December 17, 2013 (change of name from Manwin Germany GmbH to SNG GmbH).